Reeves, William

Summary

Father: William REEVES
Mother: Hannah Cook

Birth: 1834, Ludgershall, Wiltshire
Birth Source: Census and Baptism

Death: c1867, Hampshire
Death Source: FreeBMD

Spouse1: Sarah LINE

Narrative

William Reeves is the fifth known child of William REEVES and his wife Hannah (nee COOK). He was baptised in April 1834 at the Parish Church of St James, Ludgershall, Wiltshire.

On the 1841 census taken on 6 June, William appears in his parent's home on Deweys Lane,Ludgershall, Wiltshire. He is seven years old and was born in county (that is to say in Wiltshire)

At the time of the 1851 census, on 30 March, William again appears in the household of his parents William and Hannah in Ludgershall, Wiltshire with three older and three younger siblings. He is 17 years, was born at Ludgershall. There is no occupation noted for him.

FreeBMD notes the marriage of William Reeves and Sarah LINE during the third quarter of 1858 in the Southampton Registration District.
The known children of William Reeves and Sarah (nee LINE) are

• Harry REEVES, b.reg. 4q1858
• William James REEVES, b.reg. 4q1861, d.reg. 3q1862 age 0 years
• Alfred Edward REEVES, b.reg. 4q1863
• Rosina Ellen REEVES, b.reg. 1q1866, d.reg. 2q1866 age 0 years

All birth and death registrations of of their children were all recorded in the Southampton Registration District and all the births give their mother's maiden name as LINE.

By the time of the 1861 census William, with his wife Sarah and their first child Harry, is living in rooms over the stables of a Green Grocers at St Georges Place off Back of the Walls in the Holy Rood Parish of Southampton. He is 27 years old, claims birth in Ludgershall, Wiltshire and is working as a Grocer's Porter.

On the 1871 census, Sarah Reeves, along with her surviving sons Harry and Alfred E, is living in a cottage on Back of the Walls, Southampton. She is described as the Head of Household and is a Widow.

It is highly probably William's is the death noted by FreeBMD during the first quarter of 1867 in Southampton Registration District. He was 32 years old.

Research Notes

(1) Sarah Reeves subsequently married Mark KING during the second quarter of 1879 in Southampton Registration District.

Sources

Birth:       
Baptism:   FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J9FL-S93
Marriage: FreeBMD     1858, September quarter, Southampton Registration District
Death:      FreeBMD     1867, March quarter, Southampton Registration District
                 
1841 Census: HO107, Piece 1165, Book 10, Folio 8 face, Page 10
1851 Census: HO107, Piece 1683, Folio 260 reverse, Page 9, Schedule 36
1861 Census: RG9, Piece 0679, Folio 64 reverse, Page 24, Schedule 147
1871 Census: RG10, Piece 1193, Folio 115 face, Page 35, Schedule 230 - HoH Sarah (widow)